Stand by every word I said about RSS: Rahul Gandhi
August 25, 2016  15:17
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A day after Rahul Gandhi told the Supreme Court that he had never blamed the RSS as an institution for killing Mahatama Gandhi but persons associated with it were behind the assassination, the Congress VP said he stood by every single word he had said about the RSS.

"I will never stop fighting hateful divisive agenda of the RSS," Gandhi said today.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the Congress vice president in the Supreme Court yesterday, cited the affidavit filed before the high court saying he had only accused certain people of the RSS and not the organisation as the killer of Mahatma Gandhi.

"I never made the statement that the RSS killed Mahatma Gandhi but persons associated with the RSS killed him," said the senior advocate, who intervened midway when senior counsel U R Lalit, appearing for the complainant, was justifying intiation of criminal proceedings against Gandhi.

A bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and R F Nariman said if the complainant agrees to the submission, it will take the statement on record and dispose of the petition.

Today the RSS said that Rahul Gandhi needs to publicly accept that he was wrong to have blamed the organisation for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. MG Vaidya of the RSS said the Congress Vice President also should apologise for distorting facts.
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